Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considered "vulgar." He acknowledged that he was a Radical, and was darkly suspected of being both a socialist and a republican -that is, a traitor to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. So disgusted was Punch with the Radical, whom it contemptuously called "Joey," that he was caricatured as a clown, caught in the act of applying a red-hot poker labeled "Socialism" to the behind of a Briton reading the Times with a checkbook under...
...teaches his collie, Skipper, a repertory of backyard tricks, rises from a frowsy dog-&-pony show to headline billing in Madison Square Garden in The Greatest Show on Earth. With him goes pretty Ann, a blonde snake charmer whom he won when she was abandoned by an athletic, womanizing clown...
Policeman Thomas Henry Leary of Cambridge, Mass., a political clown well above average in his humor, last week wound up his campaign ("Be Wary of Leary") to avoid election as a delegate to the State Democratic Convention (TIME, Sept. 19), by ringing doorbells at dead of night, begging irate voters not to vote for him. He reported his campaign expenditures: 20? for rotten tomatoes for boys to throw at a "Vote for Leary" sign; 5? for a false mustache to frighten babies. He vowed, if elected (which local observers last week predicted he would be), to campaign for lifting...
...concoct novel advertising schemes, take his propositions to prospective clients. Soon his company, Douglas Leigh, Inc., became famous for such dis plays as its Kool cigarets penguin who winked 3,000 times an hour, its A. & P. coffeepot that emitted actual steam, and its Ballantine's Beer & Ale clown who pitched quoits. In five years the company has erected $1,000,000 worth of electric signs around Times Square, its assets have ballooned to $500,000, and its 28-year-old Alabama-born president has been dubbed the "Sign King of Broadway...
First to go out were Johnny Fischer and Ray Billows, defeated by Charley Yates and Johnny Goodman respectively on the second day. "Well, Johnny, it's better to be lucky than good," drawled Atlanta's Yates, the team's clown, after he had ousted Fischer by laying him a dead stymie on the 19th green. In the third round, Captain Ouimet was nosed out on the last hole by hard-hitting Cecil Ewing, one of Ireland's best. On the fourth day, a lashing gale and pounding rain swept even sturdy Johnny Goodman off his balance...